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He also remembers seeing public executions at Kabul's Ghazi Stadium, originally built for sport and public events, which the Taliban frequently used for punishments and executions.

The last of 13 executions took place four days before the swearing-in of Biden, who campaigned on abolishing capital punishment.

Congresswoman Norma Yarrow, of right-wing party Popular Renewal, said that "the country has been mistreated by the cabinet and the president. Extortion and crime have increased... She deserves punishment."

There are oral history accounts of inhumane punishment of parents who taught their children indigenous languages, he said.

Badinter, a lawyer who campaigned for an end to capital punishment after one of his clients was beheaded with a guillotine in the 1970s, died last year aged 95.